Display device



y 2, 1929. G. F. EGAN 1.719.505

DISPLAY DEVICE Original Filed Aug. 1925 Patented July 2, 1929.

. UNITED STATES v 1,719,505 PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE F. EGAN, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY.

' DISPLAY DEVICE.

Original application filed August 3, 1925, Serial No. 47,865. Dividedand this application filed April 8, 1926. Serial No. 100,616.

The present invention relates to improvements in display devices andconstitutes a division of my similarly entitled copending application,filed August 3, 1925, Serial No..

An object of the invention described and claimed herein is to providecard or tag holders which may grip onto the edges of shelves or othersupports upon which goods and merchandise are displayed for showing theprice, grade or some other information in connection with suchmerchandise, or which 'may rest upon any flat surface.

The invention aims to provide an inex pensive device made out of onepiece of sheet metal pressed and shaped to provide strength, durabilityand resistance to distortion.

\Vith the foregoing andother objects in view, the invention will be morefully described hereinafter, and will be more particularly pointed outin the claims appended hereto.

In the drawings, wherein like symbols refor to like or correspondingparts throughout the several views,

Figure 1 is a perspective view showing a device constructed according tothe present invention; and

Figure 2 is a longitudinal horizontal section taken through the deviceshown in Figure 1.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, a panel member isrepresented at 45, and clamp members at 46 and 4.7. Beads 48 and 49 areshown as made between the upper and lower edges of the panel member andrespective clamp members. These beads are shown as overhanging the panelmember and provide upper and lower guides in which a card may be slidhorizontally.

At one end the guides are open to admit the card, but at the other endsuch guides may be closed by a flange, as 50, which may be rolledforwardly and inwardly as indicated in Figure 2.

This flange may be a portion of the metal of the panel, and the upperand lower ends of the part 50 are preferably received and housed withinthe adjacent end parts of the upper and lower beads. The beads extendsubstantially vertically, being also substantially parallel andforwardly of the panel 45. The beads are shown as reinforced by inneroverlapping walls 51, which, as shown,

lie in contact with the rear walls of the beads and are bent over andmerge withthe top and bottom portions of the panel. In other Words thebeads are shown as of double wall construction.

The end of the panel, at the open end of the guide-ways, is shown asprovided with an extension 52. This extension 52 will form a guide toaid in the insertion of a card. If goods hang over the edge of a shelf,the device may be removed from the shelf without moving the goods.

In use of the device, a card, bearing the price of goods, or the stocknumber, or some other information or message relative thereto, beingpreviously cut to the required size and shape, is slid horizontally inthrough the open end adjoining the extension 52, the upper and loweredges of the card fitting in the guideways formed by the beads 48 and49. The card is pushed horizontally until the forward end thereofstrikes the stop or abutment 50. The card will thus be held securely inplace.

A card of any desired width or height, or both, may be held in thedevice by fitting one edge of such card in one of the guideways.

It is obvious thatvarious changes and modifications may be made in thedetails of construction and design of the above specifically describedembodiment of this invention without departing from the spirit thereof.

lVhat is claimed is:

A display device comprising a panel, clamp members extending from theupper and lower edges of the panel, beads formed between said clampmembers and the upper and lower edges of the panel for slidablyreceiving a card therein, a stop member extending from the lower to theupper bead formed with one end of they panel and bent forwardlytherefrom to receive and arrest the end of the card sliding in saidbeads, a flange on the outer edge portion of said stop member extendinginwardly within the ad jacent ends of the beads and adapted to overlapthe adjacent end portion of the card, and a free guide extension on theopposite end of the panel projecting beyond the adjacent ends of thebeads and lying wholly in the plane of the panel.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

' GEORGE r. EGAN.

